Light Crafts Releases LightZone 1.6.2By
Mike Pasini, The Imaging Resource(Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 15:17 EDT)The 1.6 update offers a new ToneMapper and improved noise reduction, more Raw support and bug fixes.Light Crafts this week released an update to LightZone, its cross-platform image editor based on the Zone System. The new version fixes problems with CMYK and Lab color profiles and CMYK TIFFs. Earlier 1.6 updates added support for the Nikon D80 and Olympus Raw formats, replaced the Contrast Mask tool with a new ToneMapper tool, improved the Noise Reduction tool, speed up opening of TIFFs and added black point compensation when exporting or printing. Details follow: